Why you have class today and 12,000 New Hampshire students do not:

Today’s classes for nearly 12,000 New Hampshire students have been canceled, just days before they’re scheduled to take off for Christmas.

The extra unplanned vacation time was awarded youngsters in the Nashua NH school district after administrators received “very specific” threats of violence, beginning on Sunday.

A spokesman declined to provide details about the terror scare, or reveal who in particular the threatening messages were directed at, but said the incident was the first in his region in “eight or nine years.”

Such threats typically come from disgruntled students themselves, he also noted, although recent high profile school closures --such as in Los Angeles -- are proving exceptions to that rule.

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